The God of Football Starts With Passive Skills-Chapter 71 - 40: Flexing His Muscles, Fighting for a Starting Spot! Wang Shuo: Coach, I Really Want to Score

Chapter 71: Chapter 40: Flexing His Muscles, Fighting for a Starting Spot! Wang Shuo: Coach, I Really Want to Score

If you wanted to play in the World Cup and the European Cup, and actually get results, then of course joining the Germany National Team would be the best choice.

But Wang Shuo could sense that Subotic didn’t want to.

If he didn’t mind, he wouldn’t be so conflicted.

"I don’t have so many complicated thoughts. It’s just like Nedved said: The Champions League is my World Cup!"

"My home country has never even made it to the World Cup finals. For me, the World Cup is destined to be out of reach."

Subotic knew that Wang Shuo was trying to comfort him.

’No matter how bad Serbia is, they’re still much better than China, right?’

"If Germany extended an olive branch to you, would you take it?" Subotic asked, looking at Wang Shuo with concern.

Wang Shuo felt that Subotic actually already had his own answer and was just looking for some validation.

"I wouldn’t."

"Why not?"

"Because my parents, my relatives, my friends, and my teachers are all in China."

"Look at me. My skin is yellow, my hair is black, my eyes are black. I was born and raised in China. From my bones to my blood to my very soul, I am Chinese!"

"Chinese football is truly terrible right now, but I believe it will get stronger, and I’m willing to do everything I can to help it get stronger!"

At that moment, Wang Shuo thought of Gao Huairen, Ma Yongcheng, Jiang Pengju, and his other teachers and seniors.

Some of them were vilified, others worked in obscurity, but they were all steadfastly doing the work, trying to make a difference, bit by bit.

It was because of them that Wang Shuo had the chance to leave Lingshan State, leave Quanjiang City, and leave China!

When you drink water, you never forget the person who dug the well.

Wang Shuo had no doubt that when the time was right, he too would choose to return to his country and become one of the next generation of well-diggers.

But for now, his number one priority was to work hard at his football.

It was just as Gao Huairen had told him the night before he left the country.

The better he played in Europe and the more influential he became, the more he could help Chinese football!

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In the end, Subotic declined Lővér’s call-up.

This was a great regret for Mainz, but the club respected his decision.

In the period that followed, Wang Shuo trained even harder.

Every day, aside from eating, sleeping, and necessary rest, he devoted all his time to training.

This obsessive training regimen even alarmed Kramny.

He even considered calling a halt to the special training at one point.

But after a thorough examination of Wang Shuo’s body confirmed there were no major issues, he allowed him to continue.

The U19 youth team’s head coach, Tuchel, also came over often to watch the training. Sometimes, when he got the itch to play, he would personally step onto the pitch, take over for Subotic, and take on the task of defending against Wang Shuo.

Despite being retired for many years, his football skills were still impressive.

He was a center-back for the German Youth National Team, after all.

Through this almost fanatical special training, Wang Shuo’s improvement was obvious.

Especially in one-on-one training sessions against the likes of Subotic and Tuchel, Wang Shuo constantly pushed his own limits.

As he gradually mastered the three passive skills, [Ball Sense], [Swift], and [First Move], they began to complement each other. Their combined power, compared to when each skill worked in isolation, could only be described as advancing by leaps and bounds.

Take something as simple as trapping a ball, for example.

With the boost from [First Move], Wang Shuo was confident that even in a 1-on-2 situation, he could track his opponents’ every move, anticipate their actions, and then use his Regional Level [Ball Sense] to precisely trap the ball in the exact spot he predicted, setting up his next move.

[Swift] made his movements faster than the defenders, allowing him to always stay one step ahead of his opponents.

A faster trap, quicker movements—it all added up to a significant increase in speed.

Eventually, it got to the point where even when Tuchel and Subotic were on the pitch defending against him at the same time during training, they had a hard time containing Wang Shuo.

And [Breathing] was the most fundamental of all, providing Wang Shuo with greater running ability and more abundant stamina.

Once, after training, Wang Shuo offered Tuchel a drink of water, and the German coach—who was known for his bad temper—actually joked, "I should really have you dissected to see how a body that’s not even 18 years old can store so much energy."

Of course, he was just kidding.

But Wang Shuo’s exceptional nature was also plain to see.

From the end of May to the end of June, over a month of special training had almost completely transformed him.

His overall ability had risen to a whole new level!

This gave Wang Shuo a much deeper understanding of the Ball God System’s Passive Skills.

He still had a Passive Skill Card on hand, which was a reward for helping the team get promoted to the Bundesliga.

But he didn’t plan on using it for the time being.

He wanted to wait until the pre-season warm-up matches, especially after getting a feel for the intensity of Bundesliga games, before deciding whether to strengthen his current passive skills or draw a new one.

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By the end of June, Klopp, Buvac, and the others had all returned from their vacations and were back at the club to begin preparations for the new season.

Seeing Wang Shuo and the others training with such fervor, Klopp and Buvac, both coaches who came from professional playing careers, would also personally join in from time to time.

The analyst, Krawietz, on the other hand, did not have a professional playing background and mostly watched from the sidelines.

In his own words, he was calibrating a new set of equipment.

The club had spent a lot of money installing cameras all around the training ground. The analysis team could use these cameras to capture footage of the players’ training, analyze it, and derive all sorts of data.

Of course, Wang Shuo wasn’t yet sure what this data would specifically be used for.